 My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1491886Full view - About this book
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...existence ; and, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to save the country.' And again, June 8 :— ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands... | |
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...ferocity of the Loyalists will not for a long time permit the restoration of perfect tranquillity. My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 578 pages
...existence ; and, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to save the country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands... | |
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...country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating1 and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven....and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved. "When it is impossible to gratify the unreasonable demands... | |
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...existence; And, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to nave the country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most eorrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work,... | |
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...existence ; and, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to save the country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing witli the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1861 - 654 pages
...mutual interest and affection " was described by lord Cornwallis in a letter of the 8th of June : " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...am supported only by the reflection, that without a Union the British empire must be dissolved." t On the 29th of March, lord Cornwallis deprecated, in... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1861 - 622 pages
...mutual interest and affection " was described by lord Cornwallis in a letter of the £¡th of June : " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and l¡ate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work ; and am supported only by the reflection,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 946 pages
...called " the management of the country" out of their hands. On the 8th of June, lord Cornwallis wrote, "My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven." The system of "negotiating and jobbing" had to be worked by promising an Irish peerage, or a lift in... | |
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...service in the hands of Lord Cornwallis. " My occupation", writes this nobleman on 8th June, 1799, " is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating...jobbing with the most corrupt people under Heaven. J despise myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work". And again : " How I long to kick those... | |
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